For Medicaid, the state-federal program that provides health care to low-income Americans, Trump’s budget plan would follow through on a bill passed by House Republicans to cut more than $800 billion over 10 years. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that this could cut off Medicaid benefits for about 10 million people over the next decade.

A key element of the budget plan will be the assumption that huge tax cuts will result in an unprecedented level of economic growth. Trump recently unveiled the broad principles of what he has said will be the biggest in U.S. history, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told a Senate panel last week that these tax cuts would end up creating trillions of dollars in new revenue, something budget experts from both parties have disputed.

The tax cuts would particularly benefit the wealthiest Americans, as Trump has proposing cutting the estate tax, capital gains and business tax rates.

First time as tragedy, the second time as a worse tragedy with elements of farce.

@donnah: I’m with you. Right after the election, a former co-worker tried her best to get me to say “MY” president and I wouldn’t. This seemed to be important to her to get me, a known Democrat in a sea of Republicans who probably caved and voted for the idiot Trump (they don’t seem to be owning up to it so much now), to say that DT was my President. I later emailed her and said DT was “the” President but was not and never would be “my” President.

I later emailed her and said DT was “the” President but was not and never would be “my” President.

This right here. Barack Obama was my president, because I volunteered, donated, and voted for him. Hillary Clinton would have been my president, because I did the same for her.

Trump may be the president-asterisk, but he’s not my president. I did everything I could to prevent him from being elected so, sorry, Trump voters, you don’t get to blame your gullibility on me or claim that I am somehow responsible for your stupidity. This one’s on you.

I just refuse to acknowledge him and every time I wear a T-shirt it has Obama’s picture on it.
(I was still in the Caribbean in 2008 and have quite a serious collection of Island Obama shirts.)
BHO remains my permanent President.
Fuck Shitgibbon & the racist BS he rode in on.

A key element of the [Trump] budget plan will be the assumption that huge tax cuts will result in an unprecedented level of economic growth.

Even David Stockman went on the radio the other day to laugh at this. Not that anyone in the Trump admin has heard of him (nor anyone in Speaker Ryan’s office cares one whit) but even St. Ronnie’s OMB guy knows this is total shit.

Also, too, see Kansas under idiot true believer Brownback. But whatever, we can’t have nice things because too many in our news business can’t be counted on to push back on this hogwash.

The Do the Right Thing and Inside Man director, reacting to footage of Trump’s trip to the UAE, added: “There was some clip I saw yesterday of him dancing with the Saudis that was just ludicrous. Not only is he not a good president, he can’t dance either. (Laughs.) He could be impeached on his rhythm.”

Lee—a supporter of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders in the election—also told The Hollywood Reporter that he believes Hillary Clinton lost because she didn’t campaign hard enough.

“Hillary comes with entitlement. They thought they were entitled to this and despite what you might think, you gotta work,” he said. “If you’re chilling at Martha’s Vineyard, and think ‘It’s a done deal.’ But it wasn’t. There’s one thing you can learn from sports. To quote Yogi Berra: ‘It ain’t over ’til it’s over.’ They thought it was theirs. Shit don’t work like that.”

@Raoul: I read a piece on the Kansas situation a couple weeks back, and they had a section (for “balance”, I guess?) where they talked to Laffer, and the giant POS just said “well duh it hasn’t worked–the tax cuts weren’t big enough! Out here in Tennessee we did it right, and we have a ginormous surplus! QED, Libtards!”.

for any future references to the Fox host who is now taking up third place in cable nooooz ratings in his timeslot while he flogs his evil murder conspiracy theory, the one that is making life a living hell for the surviving parents.

@Emerald: 120+ days in. Still no official portraits at my work. I actually looked forward to flipping it off every day but the thing is so incompetent he can’t even put his picture all over the country.

@Raoul: Maybe make a copy for Melania. She seems to be giving off plenty of ‘I’m not actually married to him’ vibes.

Maybe I’m giving her undeserved credit, but isn’t touching between opposite sexes a no-no in most Arab countries? She might have been slapping his hand away for that reason. Not that she probably isn’t completely repulsed by Trump. I seem to remember a famous picture of Trump hand-in-hand with a Saudi prince, with the explanation that men hold hands in Arab countries frequently. It might be that Melania actually remembered the cultural taboo. Would straing credibility that the shitgibbpon would be aware of it, especially since the Saudis spent most of the visit pumping his ego.

I made off with the Nixon one from the govt agency where I worked the summer after he resigned — I found it in the corner of a storeroom waiting to be discarded.. It was on my college/grad school dorm room wall for years.

@Yutsano: I have a tradition with my wife, I always give her those rulers with all the presidents on them. They’re sold at the gift shops of various historical sites. She’s memorized all the presidents, in order, and will recite them at odd times as a memory exercise (we’re old). Her most recent ruler has a photo of Obama. I asked her what she’ll do when I give her the ruler with schitzgibbon on it. She told me she’ll use a hole punch on his face.

Lawmakers used a tactic on Sunday night to circumvent the problem of time running out: a bathroom amendment was inserted into an otherwise unrelated bill about how schools plan for emergencies such as natural disasters and bomb threats.

The state house gave final approval on Monday and the bill now goes to the senate – which is also Republican-dominated and expected to back it. The legislation will then head to the desk of the Republican governor, Greg Abbott, to be signed into law.

The author of the amendment, Republican representative Chris Paddie, said it is “absolutely about child safety” and “about accommodating all kids”.

@germy: “Hillary comes with entitlement. They thought they were entitled to this and despite what you might think, you gotta work,” he said. “If you’re chilling at Martha’s Vineyard,
The fuck is that moron even babbling about

And speaking of babbling morons, I was just in the car and listened to a bit of MSNBC, because Chuck Todd is off today, and some yappy GOOPer kept barking that Alan Dershowitz has said there’s no reason to investigate anything because no one can name a statute. It was none other than Dave Brat, the Cantor-Slayer, I think I saw a blurb today that the DCCC is targeting him even though it’s a very red district.

One telling measure of how awful a person and POTUS Trump is that he’s managed to make me do something I never thought possible – missing President George W. Bush. Yeah, so I miss President Barack Obama vastly more, and would vastly have rather had President Al Gore than George W. Bush, but that’s how far we’ve fallen that Bush looks responsible, competent, and compassionate by comparison to the ShitGibbon.

the thing is so incompetent he can’t even put his picture all over the country.

I’m honestly amazed. It’s hard to imagine something that would be closer to the top of a clinical narcissist’s priority list than having his picture put up in every government office in the country. How can he have failed to get that done?

I made off with the Nixon one from the govt agency where I worked the summer after he resigned — I found it in the corner of a storeroom waiting to be discarded.. It was on my college/grad school dorm room wall for years.

I hope it was used as a dart board. That’s the only reason I can imagine a right-thinking person wanting such a thing.

@germy: back in the 80s Spike was making movies that other people wouldn’t. He helped launch the careers of Samuel L. Jackson, Wesley Snipes, and Lawrence Fishburne. He gave jobs to lots of actors who wouldn’t have had them anywhere else. He’s earned good will. But he does say some off the wall shit.

@Bobby Thomson: Susan Sarandon is, IMHO, a talented and compelling actor, as are, in different ways, Friends of Bill (O’Reilly) Robert Duval and Kelsey Grammar. It does but me that Lee and Sarandon seem blissfully unaware how insulated they will be from the consequences of the childish self-indulgence

Lee has some … issues with women that he seems to be unaware of. I’m still kinda pissed about one of the plot lines in School Daze.

He also has a lot more in common with Quentin Tarantino than either of them would like to admit: their movies have much more interesting insights into people and society than either of them seems to be able to articulate in interviews.

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry lodged a formal protest Monday with the U.S. ambassador over “aggressive” actions by American security personnel during a visit to Washington last week by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that was marred by a violent clash between Turkish guards and protesters.

The summoning of the ambassador, John Bass, sharply escalated a diplomatic rift between Turkey and the United States following the violence. Footage of the brawl was widely circulated on social media, prompting outrage in the United States, along with calls for the prosecution of the Turkish guards and even the expulsion of Turkey’s ambassador to Washington.

Given what a mess Donny The Fuckup’s administration is, this feels like Turkey punching down.